April 2025 - Future U

NEWS BRIEFS: University Leaders Step Up Organizing Efforts to Confront Trump Administration

“This administration is ready to exact retribution. I asked people to sign, and many said, ‘I can’t. I’m afraid.’”

by Future U/ April 28, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Prof Isaac Kamola, Trinity College (CT), directs AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom

by Future U/ April 27, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Video/

Michigan joins Rutgers (first school), Indiana, Michigan St. Ohio State, and Nebraska-Lincoln, with votes on tap at USC and UCLA.

by Future U/ April 26, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"The urgent task today is to expose this nexus and its plan at every turn."

by Future U/ April 25, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

Steven Levitsky, government prof, Harvard Univ: "It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."

by Future U/ April 24, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"While some believe that compliance will protect funding and independence, historical parallels suggest otherwise."

by Future U/ April 23, 2025/ Education, Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

More is required.

by Future U/ April 22, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

"Michigan State Prof Brendan Cantwell said the influence of Project 2025 and the other outlines is undeniable."

by Future U/ April 21, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"If present history is to change, then the stories have to change."

by Future U/ April 20, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Trump's gameplan: "Control what colleges can teach, what news outlets report, and what ideas are allowed to be discussed."

by Future U/ April 19, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/

"(funding) cuts don’t follow typical investigative process, and sometimes lack clear explanations and legal justifications."

by Future U/ April 18, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"Whether MSU’s administrative leadership will heed the faculty senate’s calls remains to be seen."

by Future U/ April 17, 2025/ MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Video/

"The task force doesn’t plan to take its foot off the gas any time soon, recent public statements suggest."

by Future U/ April 16, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"This is what authoritarianism looks like."

by Future U/ April 15, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society, Video/

"Let the record show that we rose to the challenge and did so in ways that did not betray its …

by Future U/ April 13, 2025/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/